wasting time at the end of the world

One Way Mirror uses actual interrogation footage released by courts after a guilty verdict has been reached, as the backbone of telling each story. We will see the best, most telling parts of the investigation, including when the criminals begin to crack and when the investigators close in on their case. Our crime experts will screen and analyze the interrogation and help the audience understand these interrogation techniques. This analysis will take the audience into the killer's mindset in this high pressure situation. What will they say to get out of this situation? “The suspect’s story may change throughout the interrogation, but the facts never do.”

A murder has been committed on a balcony. But it is only one of the many balconies attached to a large apartment block. Strange things are transpiring of each of them on loop. As the eye attempts to take them all in, the murder soon seems entirely unimportant.

After a bad day at work, a fairground performer sets out to disprove the theory of heredity so that he can marry his sister.

A newly single man eases the pain of his midlife crisis by launching a public access talk show.

After getting plastic surgery to look like a famous teen popstar, an introverted super fan named Arnold begins to experience irreversible side effects as his face begins to fall apart during a night out doing karaoke.

A tenuously connected group of nobodies trudge through their dreary Winnipeg existence. A sickly man in an unhappy marriage, a stand-up comedian whose sets are received with indifference, a stoner couple who share only trivial exchanges, and a young loner are each living lives lost in translation, detached from their surroundings and the people around them.

From some of Winnipeg’s weirdest minds comes a nightmarish vision that seems to have leaked out from the darkest recesses of Matt Groening’s subconscious and then been somehow preserved on the world’s last VHS cassette. Just who is this clown behind the microphone stand and what does he want?

Two paranoid brothers are consumed with murderous fantasies after a horse convinces them that they are each others’ enemies. Starring Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg, Forbidden Room) and Milos Mitrovic (Tapeworm, Stump the Guesser).

A clairvoyant trapped in a city far from home, bums a cigarette & shares knowledge with a video store clerk on a smoke break.

A fast-talking man claiming to be a former tennis prodigy faces the doubts and derision of the people who cross his path in Fabián Velasco and Miloš Mitrović's acerbically funny character study.

a film by milos mitrovic + peter kuplowsky

My first apartment movie, and a video exorcism.

The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and mythologized film centre in Canada. Tales outlines the tremendous importance and impact of Winnipeg on the national filmmaking scene. Packed with rare archival footage, dynamic film excerpts, and hilarious interviews, this documentary traces the history of the legendary Winnipeg Film Group. We hear candid behind the scenes stories that illuminate the storied rise of acclaimed filmmakers like John Paizs (Crime Wave), Guy Maddin (Tales From The Gimli Hospital, My Winnipeg) Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (We’re Talking Vulva, Good Citizen, Betty Baker) and Caroline Monnet (Ikwe). Often mired in controversy, the Film Group has been acclaimed at film festivals around the world – attested to by several Toronto film luminaries in the film – for subversive, original filmmaking. This documentary continues that tradition of bold, exuberant work.

When questions about familial genealogy arise, it's up to two diligent and sophisticated owners of the company DNA Confidential to unearth the Secrets, Lies and DNA Ties among their clients in order to get the answers needed.